Podenco Post

Category: Regional news

  • Podenco Canario Samuel – with SARA Lanzarote waiting for his forever family

    SARA Lanzarote Samuel 190 This is Samuel, just 11 months old, in the SARA Lanzarote shelter at Arrecife (Las Palmas). He’s waiting for a forever home, can you offer him one? Visit the website, click on Awaiting Adoption, and you’ll find Samuel and other podencos. Their only hope is adoption off the island on mainland Europe. Contact SARA

  • Podenco Social Network – anyone tell me how to use it?

    I’ve just come across this Podenco Social Network, joined but blowed if I know how to put a message on it!

  • Encasa, a podenco x pup who story touches everyone’s hearts.

    Introducing Encasa, the story of a podenco x puppy who spent the first 4 years of his life in the PAWS refuge in Spain, and to Ibizan Hound Rescue who gave him a forever home. This illustrates what fantastic pets these adorable dogs make.

  • More podencos on death row, Jerez/Gesser

    Jerez Gesser podencos 2 28 03 2011 150 These little beauties are in the Jerez/Gesser killing station – can anyone help them? There are two males and a female Contact Maribel

    Jerez Gesser podenco 1 28 03 2011 150

  • Podenco Ibicenco on death row, Gesser killing station – can anyone get him out?

    Jerez podenco 26 03 2011 190 This beautiful Podenco Ibicenco is in the Gesser killing station in Cadiz; I have people  who will take him if someone can liaise with Maribel for transport etc.

    Please help. Contact me and I can liaise, or Maribel (in Spanish)  605637101 Maribel

    There are also many more podencos here, look at the link, including puppies.

    And look how many labradors, terriers, even dalmations………all abandoned by their owners and due to be euthanaised.

  • Starving dogs give Spain a bad name

    Link to an article written by me which was printed in the Weekly Telegraph w/c 16th March 2011

  • L’Europe des Levriers bringing podencos to France

    Mourino2336 EDL 250 Those of you who read Galgo News will know that I have travelled into Spain on several rescue missions with the French association L'Europe des Levriers.  Besides galgos, we have brought out many podencos, travelling to their forever homes.  This is the translation of an article written by preisdent Beatrice Monnet on the EDL website.

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  • Podencos – cruel treatment by the Spanish hunters

    Albacete podenca 1 2010 250 Podencos suffer severe maltreatment at the hands of the Spanish hunters – abandoned, starving, caught in snares, ends of their noses chopped off to make them look like a pig, chained through the mouth to a wall, stoned to death……………..some have even had 'shot' still inside them, where they have been hit as well as the rabbits!Here's a few examples.

    I make no apologies for posting all these pictures together, let's start off Podenco Post by showing some of the horrors perpetrated against these loving and affectionate dogs, some of whom found loving homes eventually, one who sadly did not, murdered at the hands of a 16 year-old thug.

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  • Podenca Estrella, survivor of the Jaen killing station

    Estrella and Angie in Jaen 190 I've fostered quite a few podencos, mostly the rough-haired type, from mainland Spain.  One of the most beautiful stories is that of Estrella.  In December 2009 I posted a picture on Galgo News of 3 galgas and a podenca in a cell in the killing station in Jaen.  Rescue of the 3 galgas was arranged but somehow the podenca was overlooked.  I received an appeal from across the ocean in Canada – the podenca is still in Jaen, can you get her out?

    So the wheels were speedily set in motion and the podenca was rescued and taken to a refuge.  An association with whom I work closely, L'Europe des Levriers, then agreed to help get the podenca from Jaen to Madrid, from where I could collect her, along with other galgos we were bringing out to France for rehoming.  So there we were, at the beginning of February 2010, meeting up with Estrella – as the podenca had been named – to bring her home to foster.

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  • 25th March 2011 – join the march against animal cruelty

    On www.noalmaltratoanimal.org  you can read or see about a big manifestation through whole Spain on the 25th of March against mistreating of animals and longer sentences in prison for people who are guilty of this.

    There is a comprehensive list of all the major cities and towns where a march is taking place, including time and place to meet.  Please attend and get as many of your friends, supporters, neighbours etc. to take part, if you live in Spain or the Canary and Balearic Islands.  They ask for 80,000 people, I'm sure there could be many more.

    UPDATE    28/03/2011 – people turned out in their thousands, it was very successful.  When I get more news, I'll post more.